@Victor Lyuboslavsky What’s your thought on these two PRs? Do we need them both?

Hi folks! Are they related? (I know they touch the same part of the code, but they seem different issues?) Invalid symlinks vs. a "Permission denied"?

They feel related, in that they both swap the boost stuff to the non-blocking form

Ah gotcha.

I guess 8392 adds the non-throw everywhere. Where. 8399 adds it more narrowly, and also adds canonicalization routines.

Agree, 8399 is more of an addition than swapping.

@Lucas Rodriguez You left a handful of comments on the tests in 8399. That feels like something that should get resolved before merge?

+1, let's wait for Victor to comment on those.

I replied to comments and updated tests. @seph the PR is ready to merge.

LGTM 👍